Mr. Blotto was born in Chicago as an off-night vehicle for musicians who loved each others playing but were in different bands at the time. The only rule was that they would only play what they loved. That philosophy continues today and has led Mr. Blotto into unique musical situations.

Mr. Blotto takes the Jam band asthetic into areas unfamiliar to the standard Jam Scene. They have been known to cover entire albums by Led Zeppelin and the Who as well as perform entire shows of Country and Reggae. Artists as diverse as the Grateful Dead, the Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson and The Velvet Underground have seen their material interpreted by Mr. Blotto in the 2000+ shows the band has performed in the last 15 years, yet covers only pepper the bands hefty catalog of original material stemming from five studio albums and other unreleased crowd favorites.

The Great Barrier Reefs are a steel drum fronted funk fusion group based in Nashville, TN. Lead by pannist Tony Hartman (of Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten’s Black Mozart Ensemble), the Reefs have been delivering their high energy show to music lovers in the Midwest and Southeast since 2009.

Pianist/keyboardist, composer and arranger Isamu McGregor has established himself as an in-demand musician across a wide range of genres, from jazz to pop/R&B to hip hop. Described as “a pianist for the new generation” (Tony Moreno) and a “jazz pianist and keyboard player of the first order” (LiveUnsigned.com), Isamu leads or MD’s a number of bands while maintaining a busy performance schedule as a sideman. He plays his original music – a unique blend of modern jazz, fusion, hip hop and funk – with a quartet under his own name, while also composing music for various groups, from pop/R&B bands to large jazz ensembles.

Over the years, he has had the good fortune to perform live with a “dizzying variety of collaborators”(theJazzMann.com), including Wayne Krantz, Chris Potter, Keith Carlock, James Genus, GZA (Wu-Tang Clan), Bennie Maupin, Ari Hoenig, Virgil Donati, Lenny Pickett, Stefon Harris, Francisco Mela, Anthony Crawford, Tony Moreno, Ron McClure, Larry Koonse, Evan Marien, Felix Pastorius, Panagiotis Andreou, Gene Coye, Maya Azucena, Boris Koslov, Francesco Bearzatti, Ray Anderson, Paul Safy Jr., Shoshana Bush and many more. He has also appeared on recordings with Lenny Pickett, Francisco Mela, Jean-Michel Pilc, Stefon Harris, Maya Azucena, Kate Davis, Joy De Vito, Bernardo Guerra and Shoshana Bush.